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Some interesting new research about what happens in tramatized and near death situation to brain states and conscious experience:
http://io9.com/a-new-scientific-explanation-for-near-death-experience...

This is the season, after grades have been submitted, when student emails complaining about grades come in. A particular pattern emerges. I couldn't resist writing it up to use in my Critical Thinking...

"Religious affiliation in the United States is at its lowest point since it began to be tracked in the 1930s, according to analysis of newly released survey data by researchers from the University of ...

There are lots of interesting articles here:
Singularity AI Research
But the first article, Intelligence Explosion and Machine Ethics, is embarrassing it's so fun. It's by Luke Muehlhauser and Louie...

Nick Bostrom has some very interesting things to say about reasonable agnosticism here. I agree with a lot of it, but I'd add a few points about theistic belief at critical junctures that, I think, t...

The ideas first drafted here as The Basics has been evolving in my head for a while. I've adapted the post and incorporated it into my Philosophy of Religion courses as some background material for d...